Cigar



(No Model.)

T. S. LUBY.

CIGAR.

No. 258,781. Patented May 30, 1882.

llNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS s. LUBY, on BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CIGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,781, dated May 30, 1882.

Application filed March 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS S. LUBY, of Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certaiu new and useful Improvements in Cigars; and I hereby declare the same to be fully, clearly, and exactly described as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which is shown in perspective view a cigar embodying my invention.

The object of my invention is to produce a cigar tipped at both ends and completely covered by the wrapper, or, rather, by two wrappers, rolled from the middle of the cigar toward the ends, whereby certain advantages are attained which appeal as well to the consumer as to the manufacturer. The cigar, being completely covered by its wrapper, is not liable to become so dry as to break or crumble in the pocket. It is severable into two parts, each provided with a tip and awrapper, which will not come unrolled, each part being, in effeet, a complete cigar, and the cost of manufacture, while greater than that of the ordinary cigar, is considerably less than twice the same, so that a practical gain results.

In the drawing is shown the cigar havinga wrapper, A, rolled from the middle av to the ends, where the cigar is tipped as usual.

The binder may be in one or more pieces, and even if in two or more it may be wrapped from end to end of the cigar. Not so, however, with the wrapper A, which is necessarily in two parts each wrapped from the center a to the end of the cigar, which is finished and tipped as usual. This mode of applying the wrapper must be resorted to in order to prevent the wrapper from unrolling from one half of the cigar when the latter is severed in the middle. It is true the edge of the wrapperon that half of the cigar last to receive it might be gummed but, for obvious reasons, that is not desirable.

It is evident that the point a, at which the cigar is designed to be severed, need not be the center, nor, indeed, need the two parts of the cigar be the same'in shape or thickness.

Owing to the fact that it iscompletely covered by its wrapper, which is practically impermeable to water, the cigar will not readily nor quickly dry, and the peculiar flavor of a freshly-made cigar is not soon lost.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cigar having a wrapper rolled from the middle to each end, as set forth.

2. A cigar tipped at both ends and having a wrapper rolled from the middle to the ends, as set forth.

THOMAS S. LUBY.

Witnesses 2 R. D. WILLIAMs, Gno. L. KREBs. 

